Topic: Ruby / Rails' Architecture

At this meetup, Scott and I started talking about really understanding Rails’ architecture, from a conceptual point of view. After a bit of searching, I came up with this blog post on Rails’ architecture: http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2007/09/05/ra…. Unfortunately, this post talks a lot about design patterns, etc. that don’t make a lot of sense to me. Does anyone have a more… primitive explanation of what all this means?

Topic: Ruby / Idea for a RoR plugin

The RoR plugin that would let you write your css files in ruby (erb, ie style.css.erb) which would compile to css. That way, you could write perfectly standard css code, and it would output several css files that are quirks compliant.You could make several stylesheets like layout.css.erb and tabs.css.erb and so on… and once you’ve out your app in production, it would flatten all of them into one file, and minify it.

Topic: Ruby / Another blog, and a great tutorial on REST concepts

An idea just struck me: I think with all the RESTfulness, rails might be evolving from an MVC to an RV (resource-view) framework. What do you think?

Topic: Ruby / Keeping up with the best Ruby blogs

Recently, a subreddit was created specifically for ruby: http://ruby.reddit.com . It should be a good source of information.

Topic: Ruby / Another blog, and a great tutorial on REST concepts

In trying to wrap my head around rest concepts, I came up with the following table that sort everything nicely (for me, anyway):

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgn2nsft_27c2…

Does this make sense? Is there a better way to describe and categorize these things? Disclaimer: I plan on buying the O’Reilly RESTful Web Services book; maybe there’s a much better way to think about REST in the book.

Topic: The Lounge / Plotting in jQuery

I know there’s been a bit of interest in jQuery, so I thought I’d mention this plugin to jQuery that lets you plot data: http://ajaxian.com/archives/plotting-in-jquery

Topic: Ruby / Heroku.com

I just got an invitation to heroku (an instant rails hosting/online editing app). I was thinking we could try using it during ruby meetings, since anything you create/change is instantly live. Let me know if anyone needs an invite (invitees skip the waiting list).

Topic: Ruby / Good RoR plugins

Regarding jq4r,there’s another one called jRails

Topic: Ruby / Good RoR plugins

Just read about the make_resourceful plugin; seems like it would be really useful for RESTful development. One gotcha is that it requires haml.

Topic: Meta / Topics for Wed, Nov. 14

Hey guys,

Something just came up, and it looks like I can’t make it.

Topic: Ruby / Good RoR plugins

I was wondering if we could list the plugins for RoR in this forum, that are useful? In particular, I was wondering about the plugin that lets you do revision history.

Topic: Meta / Topics for tonight 10/17?

I hate to waste a reply with a me-too-esque post, but my votes are on all of the above :~).

Actually, now that I think about it, can we go over installing and including plugins, since rails 2.0 will make things like “acts_as_tree” plugins?

Topic: Ruby / RoR Technical Questions

wow… thanks for the help, guys! This confirms how I might want to proceed: finish making my interface mockups, think of good urls for them, then think about what controllers are needed.

Edit: I already have (most) of my models figured out.

Topic: Ruby / RoR Technical Questions

Question about controllers: should every model have a corresponding controller? Or should every view have a controller? What are the general guidelines for creating controllers?

Topic: Ruby / free RoR book download: build your own RoR app

The download link can be found here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/sitepoint-books/ror.pdf

So far, (I’m 63 pages into it), this seems like a really good beginners’ book: it not only talks about Ruby and Rails, but also goes into detail like what is the difference between compiled and interpreted languages, what an object-oriented language is, etc.

Topic: Ruby / Anyone have the book RailsSpace...

Well, I went ahead and bought the book… about half the stuff seems over my head (for now); I’m not sure whether this means the book is really good, but it seems that way.

Topic: Ruby / Dynamic CSS with RoR

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/dynamic-css

This is something I wish existed for some time now. I’m thrilled that it does!

Topic: Ruby / RoR 2.0 preview release

http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2007/9/30/rails-2…

Topic: Meta / Topics for Wed 9/12?

ActiveRecord Relationships would be really good, as well as lighting talks.

Topic: Ruby / Anyone have the book RailsSpace...

...that I could borrow, for, say, one week? I’m not sure if I want to spend money on it right now.

Topic: Ruby / Where to start

No disagreements here, although I am slightly further along than a total newbie when it comes to javascript. That being said, I really like the jquery library; it just makes sense to me.

Topic: The Lounge / Accountant Tax Guy in State College?

My previous start-up’s accountant was Len Stefanko (their senior accountant) with US Accounting (info here). They came recommended to me from someone I really respect; however, I do think they charge a bit on the high side. YMMV.

Topic: Ruby / RoR IDE

Netbeans THE best ruby on rails IDE, according to this article. What do you think? I’m going to install it and try it out.

Topic: Ruby / RoR Technical Questions

I’m going through the “Agile Web Development with Rails” book, and just got to the link_to method. This is what I am talking about:

My question is this: is :action the equivalent of this in javascript?

Topic: Ruby / How to Get Ruby, Rails, and a Database Installed and Working on My Laptop

If anyone has tried to follow the aptana guide for setting up ruby, rails, and mysql (the hivemind article) and not have had luck, make sure you change the rubyVM settings to point to /opt/local instead of /usr. If anyone needs the necessary links to see what I’m talking about, let me know.